How does strategy& brand itself/ see itself? Looking at opportunity and trying to best position myself. What does their culture look for/ value?

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Lol the salt here is real

Culture here can be pretty rough - won’t deny that, but there are some really smart people here that you’d never find at a Big 4 “consulting” arm.

PwC doesn’t have an S&O practice - no idea where EM1 is getting that from.

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@OP -- my understanding was that back in 2014, Booz & Co. ultimately decided to sell itself because it simply could not stop attrition in its middle ranks (managers, directors) -- the culture was especially brutal to those folks. Ever since, S& has not really worked to create a single unified culture -- in my practice, it's a mix of the old Booz partners, some of whom directly contributed to that meltdown in 2014, organically promoted folks from PwC / S&, and now a large group of ex-BCG partners.

Hence the clique-ishness.

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It’s not bad. Most people here are happy. The unhappy voices are the loudest. I wouldn’t trust the opinion of anyone that doesn’t work at S&.

The culture is intense because partners need to deliver. The pipeline is mostly very strong. We’re sold out in most verticals.

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Strategy& is where PWC Strategy & Ops folks go if they are performing below expectations

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Stop the cap

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S& is a solid brand. You all are hating because you probably couldn’t get in. What a bunch of losers!

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Snooty, over-priced, political, cliquish, with no hard skills.

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Isn't "cliquish" the same thing as "it's a people business" and "you need to network"

S& is a shell of what it was as Booz & Company. Out of 250 Booz partners, fewer than 50 remain.

There are more Booz partners at KPMG, Deloitte, and MBB than at S&.

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A2, people hate S& because it represents the destruction of Booz as a strategy brand.

Booz is dead

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Wannabe discount MBB

SC1 I spent some time around S& and chose to stick with the PwC Partners because all of the above reasons, and the fact that in FS, PwC partners were outpacing S& in revenue 3x, 4x or evening more. S& partners just didn’t have sustainable numbers.

Good question. I’m in industry now and all the products strategy& has delivered us have been ‘meh’ at best.

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